Moetan brings us again how Engrish is supposed to be used! This new lesson is updated with the latest events and fads in the Engrish-speaking(?) world.
Here are the phrases as they appear in the video. How many can you identify the sources?
「親父にもぶたれてたことないのに」
But, I was never even beaten by my dad!
Amuro Ray says this in Episode 9 of Kidou Senshi Gundam after Bright Noa hit him.
「海賊王に俺はなる」
I’m the one who will be the King of Pirates.
Monkey D. Luffy says this at the beginning of One Piece.
「良いボートですね。」
It’s a Nice Boat.
TV Kanagawa replaced the bloody last episode of School Days with a documentary with a boat in a lake. The incident was identified as “Nice Boat” since.
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Get a headphone. Prepare your heart. And listen to this:
My head exploded multiple times already… Arrggghhhh… Kugyuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!
I’m at Episode 20 of Clannad now. There’s no complaint about the animation, the comedic timing, or the emotion KyoAni could project. So, expression-wise, Clannad gets an almost perfect score. Story-wise, it has down-to-earth stories that I think many find touching and easy to relate to. However, thinking about what happen to each family, I got a feeling that having a family is hard, and it sucks most of the time. (Continued)
I didn’t sleep last night because I marathoned chapter 152-206 of Mahou Sensei Negima. It was that good. Here’s why:
Designs
Costumes, beasts, cities, environments, and battle choreography. Detailed and beautiful.
Akamatasu-sensei sure get himself a group of assistants with l33t skillz. (Continued)
If you look at Wikipedia page on fansub, the first citation you’ll see is the article “Celebrating the Two Decades of Unlawful Progress: Fan distribution, Proselytization Commons, and the Explosive Growth of Japanese Animation” by Sean Leonard. (Grab the paper here.) I’m writing this post to record what I learned from the paper, and I hope I can help you save some time.
Why is this paper important? Well, as far as I know, it’s the only peer-reviewed article that directly deals with fansubbing and its copyright problem, exactly the quagmire that we are all in. The main contributions of the paper are as follows:
- Despite being a legal paper, it gives a detailed history of how fansub started in the U.S. back in the 1980s, and recounts its relationship with Japanese anime companies. You might need this information to talk more deeply about fansubs. (You also get a lot of nice trivia on fansub history. For example, I was surprised to learn that an officer in the U.S. military was responsible for giving birth to a massive raw distribution network back then.)
- It formally presents the argument that fansub helps the industry promote anime, and gives supporting evidences. This means that, when you argue with someone on whether fansubs help or harm, you can use the rhetoric of this paper in the argument. I’ll talk more about this below.
- It suggests a practice that makes fansubbing of unlicensed anime legal, and justifies the practice in the light of theCopyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Now let’s get on with some details. (Continued)
Friday, February 22, 2008
It’s official!
The above video is full of lulz. First, a 15-year-old boy sent a postcard asking Yukarin “[…] Girls I like are 2D characters and Yukarin. It’s awkward to say that, isn’t it? Can you suggest a way to avoid the subject?”
Yukarin and the co-host went “Hmm… This is difficult.” And Yukarin said, “You see. I’m, like, 2.5D myself.” (LOL) (Continued)
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The titular video, M.N.M.K. San Shimai wa Heibon Nanoka? (M.N.M.K.三姉妹は平凡なのか？ 最終鬼畜南家 【みなみけMAD】), is probably the best recent Nico Nico Douga remix. See for yourself how AWESOME it is below:
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
If I learned something from watching Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (hereby referred to as SZS), then it’s the fact that SZS is not a great show to marathon.
While this picture has something to do with the content,
it is clearly a shameless attempt to attract readers.
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